Six Times Around the World
C & C Technologies, headquartered in Lafayette, USA, has announced that its AUV fleet has completed over 240,000 kilometres of deepwater mapping since beginning commercial operations in January 2001. This achievement is comparable to encircling the globe six times. This AUV work was performed during 335 major projects for 64 different clients worldwide.
C & C Technologies pioneered the world's first commercially operated AUV for oil and gas exploration, setting the standard in deepwater AUV capability.
C & C is committed to delivering the best possible data to its clients in a timely manner. "Our in-house AUV R&D capabilities allow for rapid innovation, maximum reliability and safety, and the most advanced technology," said Scott Croft, VP of Geosciences at C & C Technologies. Some of the current upgrades to C & C's AUV fleet include a dynamically focused side-scan sonar with a smaller beam width and a higher cross-track resolution (230kHz vs. 120kHz), and a sub-bottom profiler using lower frequency (1-6kHz) for deeper penetration with four transmit transducers and an 8-element receiver array. The C-Surveyor proprietary camera system takes flash-illuminated black-and-white photographs of the seabed. The camera is able to take photos at fixed time intervals and each photograph has a resolution of 1360 x 1024 pixels allowing for pipeline inspection and regional ocean bottom mosaics.
